Planting onions with seeds
Onions are a popular garden crop, which are planted en masse and are one of the first to be sown. On the still black bare ground in early spring, you can already see green feathers, promising the owners a delicious salad for the table and healthy vitamins. Typically, onions are grown in two (three, four or more) separate beds: one for greens, the other for turnips. Some varieties produce a lot of feathers, others have large, dense bulbs.
This crop can be planted by seeds or sets. The seeds are usually black and wrinkled. It is recommended to store them for up to three years, as long as they remain viable. Since onions by nature sprout quite slowly, you can pre-soak the seeds. If the soil is dry at the time of planting, you need to water it generously. Although onions are considered a frost-resistant plant, cold temperatures below -3° can seriously damage the seedlings. Therefore, if you plant it early (for example, at the end of March), it is better to cover the bed with film. Planting depth is no more than one and a half centimeters. They usually plant two or three pieces every ten to fifteen centimeters. It can be thicker, but then you will need to thin out more often.
To grow onions for turnips, you need the first half of summer to be wet and the second half to be dry. Then it will grow big and will be stored for a long time. Greens always need water.
Planting onions with seeds has one drawback - the crop does not always have time to ripen before harvest. Therefore, you can grow seedlings at home in advance, in boxes. Having sowed the seeds in early March, by mid-April you will already have decent seedlings that will ripen, despite the weather conditions in the fall.
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The garlic business in Ukraine is gaining momentum. Large farms and private farms are engaged in the cultivation of winter garlic. Selling garlic brings good profits and is much easier than growing potatoes, especially in the southern regions of Ukraine. But to succeed, you need to know some of the intricacies of this matter.
Planting material for winter garlic.
1) Air bulb (bulb)
2) Tooth (mature head)
3) One-tooth (grown from an aerial bulb)
About the pros and cons of each.
The aerial bulb or bulb is a high-quality planting material. By sowing bulbs weighing 0.05-0.3 g, small one-toothed bulbs (sets) weighing 0.5-3 g are obtained from them, and then ordinary bolting bulbs are grown from them. When sowing with bulblets, the spread of the stem nematode is excluded, since it does not affect the inflorescences, and, therefore, is not transmitted with the bulblets.
The disadvantages are as follows
- a very labor-intensive process of growing sets
- very large losses and material costs during cleaning. sevka
- They wait 2 years for the harvest.
tooth
Very good planting material - it has overwintered and already has a wow harvest, BUT, provided that it is obtained from the head of the 1st reproduction
.Garlic is a crop that, due to its biological characteristics, is subject to rapid degeneration. A head of garlic consisting of 2-4 cloves, even large ones, is classified as poor planting material (degenerate). A person who buys planting garlic not in a whole head, but in the form of a clove, is already doomed to failure, since there is a risk of buying “waste.” And if you buy garlic even in a head, it is difficult to determine what kind of reproduction it is. .
The big minus of the clove is the nematode.Unfortunately, it often happens that the tops are large, but the roots...
One-tooth (grown from a bulbul)
One-toothed is an elite planting material. A head of garlic grown from a single clove is always larger and has a larger number of cloves
pros
-improved planting material.
- savings in growing time (1 year) compared to an aerial bulb.
- the yield is higher than from a clove.
- not infected with nematodes.
Minus one
-slightly higher price compared to a clove
By purchasing a one-toothed plant, you will always receive a high harvest of excellent quality and at the same time, planting material of the highest quality up to 3-4 reproductions.
Good luck!